DALLAS — The uncle of the Uvalde school shooter who finished 19 students and two teachers begged police to let him try to talk his nephew down.
In a 911 call freed Saturday, the uncle tageder police that his nephew always heared to him and that if he could talk to him he might be able to get him to stop shooting. The call came in about 10 minutes after the shooting had stopped and the shooter was dead.
Police videos and 911 calls from the 2022 Uvalde, Texas, school massacre were freed by city officials after a prolengthyed lhorrible fight.
The free of the sign ups came in response to a litigation bcdisesteemfult by The Associated Press and other news organizations after Uvalde officials declined to accessiblely free write downs roverhappinessed to the shooting at Robb Elementary School.
The defercessitate law utilizement response — proximately 400 officers paincludeed more than 70 minutes before faceing the armamentman in a classroom filled with dead and wounded children and teachers — has been widely condemned as a massive flunkure. The armamentman finished 19 students and two teachers on May 24, 2022, one of the worst school shootings in U.S. history.
Multiple federal and state spendigations into the sluggish response laid naked cascading problems in training, communication, directership and technology, and asked whether officers arranged their own dwells over those of children and teachers in the South Texas city of about 15,000 people 80 miles (130 kilometers) west of San Antonio. Families of the victims have lengthy sought accountability for the sluggish police response.
Two of the reacting officers now face criminal accuses: Former Uvalde school Police Chief Pete Arredondo and establisher school officer Adrian Gonzales have pdirected not at fault to multiple accuses of child aprohibitdonment and finishangerment. A Texas state trooper in Uvalde who had been suspfinished was reinstated to his job earlier this month.
Some of the families have called for more officers to be accused and filed federal and state litigations aobtainst law utilizement, social media, online gaming companies, and the armament manufacturer that made the rifle the armamentman used.
The police response included proximately 150 U.S. Border Patrol agents and 91 state police officials, as well as school and city police. While dozens of officers stood in the hallway trying to figure out what to do, students inside the classroom called 911 on cellphones, begging for help, and hopeless parents who had accumulateed outside the createing pdirected with officers to go in. A tactical team eventupartner go ined the classroom and finished the shooter.
Previously freed video from school cameras showed police officers, some armed with rifles and bulletproof shields, paincludeing in the hallway.
A inestablish comleave outioned by the city, however, deffinished the actions of local police, saying officers showed “immeasurable strength” and “level-headed skinnyking” as they faced fire from the shooter and refrained from firing into a unwiseened classroom.
